Darris J. Brock

7809 Timber Glow Trail, Knoxville, TN 37938 (865) 748-6179

Darris Brock is an ordained minister in the Christian Church. He

received his BA from Atlanta Christian College where he graduated

magna cum laude. He obtained his MA from Emmanuel School of

Religion where he wrote his thesis on The Apocalyptic Structure of Matthew

24-25. He went on to do AD studies in New Testament through the Toronto

School of Theology. Areas of speciality include the Synoptic Gospels,

Pauline Literature, Johannine Literature, and Intertestamental Literature. In

addition, he is heavily interested in the Old Testament (particularly Genesis)

cults, the occult, and non-Christian religions.

RECENT WORKS

In 2004 he began teaching at Johnson University. While there, he has taught Hermeneutics,

Elementary Greek, Intermediate Greek, Introduction to Biblical Languages and Tools (Hebrew and

Greek), Christian Theology, Pauline Epistles, History of Israel, General Epistles, Old Testament

Prophets, Pentateuch, and a section in Genesis. He also has taught Greek at Lighthouse Christian

Church in Powell where he is the Worship Team leader and elder, teaches guitar and piano, teaches

regularly and preaches semi-regularly. Along with Dr. Mark Taylor, he has

co-founded a publishing company called Koinonia Associates. He and Dr.

Taylor have co-authored and published two books, Fast Food Education:

Calling for a more natural approach to teaching and learning in America

and Water from the Well: A Minister’s Communion Meditations. These books

are available through Amazon and other outlets. Additional works are

forthcoming. A list of titles currently in publication is available at the website

PublishwithKA.com. He does photography and cover design for the books

and he also records and produces audio books for clients. He also writes two

columns for Examiner.com as The Appalachian Mountains Travel Examiner.

VOLUNTEERISM

In addition to his volunteer work with the church, he has served as the vice-

president of the Board of Directors for the Eagle's Nest Christian Academy. He is the President of

Reasonable Faith Knoxville, an apologetics group based off of William

Lane Craig’s ministry work. He also assists the local Ratio Christi chapter

at the University of Tennessee and attends the Reasons to Believe meetings

in Knoxville. He writes blog posts on apologetics topics at

ReasonableFaithKnoxville.org. He has taught Greek in his home for

Johnson students. He has also been a leader and guitarist in a Young Life

group.

FAMILY

He is married to the former Lisa Branch of Knoxville. They have four children, ages 11-22. The

family lives in the Halls Crossroads community in the northwestern Knoxville metropolitan area.

His wife manages her own business.

CHURCH BACKGROUND

He was born and raised in Cherokee County, Georgia and grew up in the Presbyterian Church. In his

early twenties he joined First Christian Church in Cumming, Georgia and began Bible college while

there. He taught a combined 9th and 10th grade class as well as ran the sound system and the tape

ministry. Two years later he accepted a job as youth minister at Pleasant Hill Christian Church in

Pickens County, Georgia where he also eventually served as choir director and interim minister until

beginning Emmanuel School of Religion in 1998. While in seminary, he was the senior minister at

Westside Christian Church in Morristown, Tennessee. After seminary he was interim minister for

First Christian Church in Cumberland, Kentucky before moving to Mississauga, Ontario for

additional advanced degree education in 2001. While there he and his family participated in the

Churchill Meadows Christian Church plant headed by Jim Tune, founder of Impact Ontario and later

Impact Canada. He taught a small group while there and did preaching on occasion. After returning

stateside the family attended Halls Christian Church for about two years before moving to

Lighthouse Christian Church in 2005.

ADDITIONAL WORK HISTORY

RADIO

Prior to entering the ministry, he served as the News Director at WHNE radio in Cumming, Georgia;

had a private-party D.J. service, and had worked on-air at WYYZ in Jasper, Georgia and later at

WDGR in Dahlonega, Georgia. He has done numerous live broadcasts including announcing

baseball, basketball, and football games. He has covered virtually every type of news story, was a

frequent contributor to Georgia Network News, WDUN, WSB, other radio stations, and news outlets

such as the Associated Press and ABC Radio News. He has performed in, written, and produced

hundreds of radio commercials, on-air comedy bits, and supplied character voices for each. He has

many skills in production and a good family-style on-air demeanor.

NEWSPAPER

After leaving WHNE, he served as a sports writer for The Forum, a local newspaper in Forsyth

County, Georgia. He covered high school football, basketball, and baseball and wrote feature articles

on selected players. He worked closely with coaches and had good rapport and reputation with them.

TEACHING

He has also served as the lead tutor and parent/teacher specialist at Maynardville Elementary where

he oversaw a K-5 after school program for Douglas Cherokee Economic Authority and taught

computer education to adults.

MANAGEMENT SKILLS

At various times he has been in both formal and informal management positions. During his time

with R & P Properties (see Odd Jobs) he worked his way up to managing a crew of workers. This

consisted of 2 to 4 people at a given time and had as many as a dozen houses to coordinate the work

around. He was responsible for running ads to find employees, hiring them, and making sure they

performed their duties.

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During the years with Douglas-Cherokee Economic Authority, he was responsible for finding

applicants for co-workers and recruiting volunteers to help tutor the K-5 students. In this capacity

he had two regular employees under his charge and numerous volunteers. He was responsible for

keeping payroll records, assigning duties, and ensuring the execution of said duties.

During his time in radio, he was a supervisor for others in short-term situations. This would include

training new employees and assigning reporting duties to others.

In other office situations, such as Frontier Health (see Odd Jobs), he has naturally risen to the top in

leadership skills. In such situations he was often tasked to structure work with and for others even

though he was not formally their superior. This task was sometimes assigned by superiors and at

other times arose naturally within the working group.

During the time in which he had the D.J. business, he not only managed all his own business but

came to arrange others for work in the business as the workload increased.

Most of his ministry work has been managing volunteers, planning events, and coordinating

activities.

WEB DESIGN

He has designed web pages for his personal use, business use, his church, and has been hired to

develop sites for others. He has skills with HTML, GIF animation, PERL scripting, Javascript, CGI,

CSS, Swish videos and others.

COMPUTER SKILLS

He has been using computers since the early 1980s and has owned, maintained, upgraded, and

repaired computers through the present. He is heavily involved in computer use and has a very wide

range of experience with all types of programs. He taught the use of Microsoft Office Suite while

employed with Douglas-Cherokee Economic Authority. He can use the Wordperfect Office Suite,

Internet Explorer, Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office, Frontpage, InDesign, HTML Kit, Komposer,

Dreamweaver, Ulead Cool 3-D, Ulead Gif Animator, GIMP, Scribus, and many, many others. He

maintains his home, business, and church networks, web sites, and computers.

ODD JOBS

He had done on-demand work for T. Lane Appraisals (property appraising). He worked for R & P

Properties in Georgia, a residential home builder. He has worked in a call center for USAC (Ford’s

roadside assistance program). He worked at Frontier Health in Johnson City as a Claims Specialist

dealing with outstanding insurance claims regarding the state of Tennessee.

HOBBIES

Mr. Brock is a PADI certified Open-Water scuba diver, enjoys Karaoke with friends, plays six-string

guitar, bass guitar, keyboard, and violin, tennis, racquetball, and golf. More can be learned about him

through his personal website, http://www.darrisbrock.com.

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Educational Background

Toronto School of TheologyToronto School of TheologyToronto School of TheologyToronto School of Theology

Major Areas: The Synoptic Gospels and Intertestamental Jewish LiteratureMinor Areas: Paul and the Johannine Literature

Salvation as Liberation N Hebrew: Genesis N Galatians N German N French N Hebrew: PoetryNew Testament Epigraphy N Aspects of Matthean Interpretation N The Synoptic Problem

Gospel of John N Composition of the Sayings Gospel Q N Readings in Intertestamental JewishLiterature

Emmanuel School of ReligionEmmanuel School of ReligionEmmanuel School of ReligionEmmanuel School of Religion

Thesis: The Apocalyptic Structure of Matthew 24-25

New Testament Introduction I & II N 1 Thessalonians (translation & exegesis) N Exegesis ofRomans N Exegesis of Matthew N Advanced Greek (translation of pre-biblical Greek)

Old Testament Introduction I & II N Theology of the Old Testament N Literary Structure ofZechariah N Post-Exilic Religion N Intertestamental Jewish Literature

Introduction to Christian Doctrine N Introduction to Christian Ministry N Studies of EasternChristianity N Methods & Models of Biblical Exegesis N Theological German I & II

Atlanta Christian CollegeAtlanta Christian CollegeAtlanta Christian CollegeAtlanta Christian College

Biblical Hebrew N Greek I N Greek II (exegesis of 1 John, Colossians & Matthew) N Exegesis of 1& 2 Thessalonians (Greek III)

Restoration Movement History N Christian Doctrine N Church History N Thought of theRestoration Movement

Gospels I & II N Gospel of John N Acts N Terms of Salvation (Romans) N Life and Literature ofPaul N Biblical Interpretation

Introduction to Christian Ministry N Homiletics I N Preaching Through a NT Book N PracticalMinistries N Preaching for Special Occasions N Urban & Cross Cultural Evangelism N Church

Growth

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Genesis N Old Testament Survey N Old Testament History N Old Testament Prophecy

Western World Literature N Composition I & II N Composition & Rhetoric III N EnvironmentalScience N Western Civilization N Ethics N Introduction to Psychology N Introduction to

Sociology N Introduction to Christian Education N Introduction to Humanities N Introductionto Philosophy N Family N US History N College Math I & II

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